Anthropic's AI Agents Sent 20 Visa Applications
Anthropic's agents submitted 20 incomplete visa applications. OpenAI reported annualized revenue nearing $50 billion against a widely reported $70 billion, while Nvidia weighed a closer tie to an open-model developer.
GlobalFoundries’ $2 Billion Route Into TSMC Packaging
The advanced-packaging bottleneck is turning system integration into a strategic manufacturing market. GlobalFoundries’ five-year, $2 billion silicon-interposer agreement with TSMC puts part of that supply chain in Malta, New York.
AWS Raises Nvidia GPU Reservation Prices 20%
AWS raised advance-reserved Nvidia GPU prices in EC2 Capacity Blocks by 20% while leaving Trainium prices unchanged. A reservation buys access to particular hardware at a usable time, not merely a lower hourly rate.
Stack Overflow’s $115 Million Question
Sherwood News reported 6,866 Stack Overflow questions in December 2025 and $115 million in annual revenue. GitHub and Apple bring AI help into editors as Stack Overflow licenses its archive.
TikTok US Was Sold. Staff Still Use ByteDance’s Lark
ByteDance retains 19.9% of TikTok’s new US venture, while employees report continued use of its workplace app Lark. A 2023 investigation found private user data in Lark groups accessible to ByteDance staff.
Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House …
A look at Apple's smart home strategy, centered on a HomeView display hub, with a new HomePod mini, Apple TV, and second-party accessories from LG and Schneider
Fresh details on Apple's HomeView, HomePod mini and new Apple TV, including release dates, colors, chips and features.
Yandex says a drone strike shut down a third data center, disrupting 80+ services like Yandex Cloud and YandexGPT; users report banking and taxi app outages
A Ukrainian drone strike targeted a major Yandex data center in the Russian city of Vladimir early Sunday morning, Oct. 11 …
Hundreds of old games were decompiled and ported to run on browsers in recent weeks, driven by Claude Opus 5.5; titles like GTA: Vice City and Halo: CE run well
Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3 and many more titles have been decompiled and ported to web browsers overnight
“Super Intelligence systems” are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment
As traditional software systems were being deployed across the economy over the last few decades, we had the tools …
How Musk and Benioff pledged to rename SpaceXAI and AIForce, while Nadella and Nvidia adopted “super intelligence”, as Silicon Valley falls in line with Trump
Musk, Benioff, Huang, and now Nadella have all capitulated to Trump's ‘super intelligence’ rebrand.
Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models
Decision models are quickly emerging as an important new category in AI. Unlike LLMs, which are designed to generate text …
Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy …
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny
Donald Trump's administration hopes the company will rival cheap Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek
After 20+ major Japanese companies reported cyber attacks in recent weeks, Japan's NCSH chief says the country is in “a state of emergency in cyber space”
Dozens of targets including car rental operators, barbecue chains and rail group JR East disclose data leaks
Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~$7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B in September
San Francisco company's software makes it easier for developers to switch between different AI chips
General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, raised a $120M Series B led by a16z
General Medicine Andreessen Horowitz Mercy Health Eli Lilly — Artificial intelligence is making healthcare advice easier to access …
A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share
When measuring the race between artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, investors have run into a problem …
A look at Walmart's troubled push to automate its ~200 US warehouses, as it and partners like Symbotic face technical setbacks; Walmart owns 12.6% of Symbotic
Machines programmed to sort merchandise in warehouses hit kinks with cardboard boxes and turkeys; automation push reaches ‘peak complexity’
Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices
PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes
‘Physical AI’ developers are putting cameras in homes, offices and factories to fill a gap in the training material of robotics
Multiply Labs, which develops robotic systems to automate pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, raised a $75M Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks
Multiply Labs Inc., a startup that develops automation equipment for drugmakers, has raised $75 million in funding.
Laptop production share outside China is expected to fall from 24% in 2025 to 21% in 2026 as PC makers rethink shifting production amid soaring component costs
Sources detail how Firmus' IPO collapsed in 48 hours after US fund managers deemed its $30B valuation too rich for a company with just $51M in FY 2026 revenue
OpenAI says it didn't fire three researchers for “raising safety concerns or speaking out”, but for violating “clear policies on handling sensitive information”
A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute
Last month, Zach Dell, son of billionaire Michael Dell and cofounder of Base Power, a billion-dollar battery startup …
IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3%
DJI and Insta360 engaged in ‘civil war’ to become world's top smart camera maker — The decline of action camera pioneer GoPro …
Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18
Reuters. The people running the company are utterly incompetent to have this sort of stuff happening. https://www.reuters.com/...Gerrit De Vynck /@gerritd:full police statement. “The two month delay i...
Rein Security, which develops runtime tools to secure enterprise AI agents and stop adversarial AI agents, raised a $25M Series A, taking total funding to $35M
The Israeli startup says its revenue has grown eightfold since January and its platform is now securing thousands of agents that execute millions of actions.
A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access
A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary …
Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark
In the months before TikTok finalized a deal to sell its U.S. operations to a group of investors friendly to President Donald Trump …
How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal
Tom Brown is leveraging his Republican ties and business savvy to win over Washington and secure the computing power Anthropic needs
Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised a $870M Series A led by a16z at a $7.5B valuation with Sequoia and others participating, says ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev
A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN
Why is Anthropic driving its partners to speed up the $530 billion of data center leasing deals it has signed?
NY AG announces an up-to-$35M settlement with ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky that permanently bars him from the securities, commodities, and crypto industries
A look at Beijing-based Neolix, which operates the world's largest robovan fleet at 27K, as Shenzhen tests nighttime parcel deliveries by driverless vehicles
Autonomous vehicle companies believe there's a huge market opportunity in delivering after dark, if the technical challenges can be overcome.
A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits
Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions
Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies …